Anyone remember "Iced Earth"? Mediocre US "power metal" band known for repetitive chugging chords, horror themed music and one of the worst 9/11 songs this side of country? Well, their band leader is a covidiot and domestic terrorist and has been arrested for the latter. » Continue Reading
It's interesting that a lot of the current "retro" electronic music is so tied to the 80s (synthwave). We often forget that this might've been the decade where electronic music really broke big, because the tools just got cheaper and better. But the first "big hits" of the genre happened slightly over a decade earlier. Gershon Kingsley's Hot Butter was one of the » Continue Reading
So the joke continues , and I've got an idea about my new band: If you can't read this, I've done my job. This is the new logo for Yennerwyne, my Poacher Black Metal band. As I've said before, I can't play any instruments, so this kind of limits » Continue Reading
I have to admit it: The fact that I played around with transforming the pictures on my profile to have slight rotation isn't a tribute to the legendary "MySpace Angle". Anyone remember this? The thing itself is still hugely popular, and was before: A profile shot of a person from a somewhat congratulatory angle, mostly from above. Famously focusing on a girls cleavage instead of her full figure, w... » Continue Reading
So when this arrived on Hacker News, I thought why not register an account. Either it's gone in a week like many other posts there, or I'll be the proud owner of a three-letter user name/low user id in a couple of years like on twitter… I never was that much into MySpace, and only Tom was my friend, as far as I can remember. But I remember that it was the home of a lot of bands much more awful tha... » Continue Reading
So at least until someone Bobby Tables the whole shebang, styling your profile via CSS is the rage here. We're living in a acid-fueled zen garden, apparently. » Continue Reading